“I’ve read the entire driver’s manual! I know everything there is to know ABOUT driving. Now all I need to learn is HOW to drive!” I laughed as my almost-16 year old son went on to describe all that he knew about driving yet how much he still had to learn about how to drive. He had the knowledge; he needed the experience. We went on to discuss how that parallels life and...
(Click here for a printable list of verses.) “Can I just do it MY way?” My son truly believed his way was better, faster, and right! What he didn’t realize was that as a seven year old, his understanding was limited and his view was short-sighted! How I can relate! How easy it is to rely on our understanding and therefore desire (or insist!) upon doing things our way! Wisely,...
Download Scripture Cards Most of my kids love to fish and to spend time on their grandfather’s boat. One, however, only enjoys it under certain conditions: not too hot, not too windy, and above all, not too rocky. We have learned how to work around his stipulations and when he should join in a fun fishing trip and when it is best he does not. However, we have also learned that not all of...
Download Scripture Cards "God is God. He knows what He is doing. When you can't trace His hand, trust His heart." - Max Lucado What exactly is His heart? How can we know it? Through the Word of God! The Bible has been called God's love letter to us. In it, we read that He is "compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love" (Psalm 103:8). As we know Him more, we find we trust Him...
Download Free Study "Rest for My Soul" is a five-day, printable Bible study. “All I want is REST!” That was my answer one year when asked what I wanted for Mother’s Day…or maybe it was Christmas, or perhaps even my birthday. Truth be told, I can’t remember the occasion but I DO remember the sinking feeling when I realized all I really wanted, no one could give me. How about you? Are you tired,...
More Coming Soon! Updated: January's Topic: Pursue and Seek This printable provides one verse per day -- for the month of January -- for you (or you and your family) to read, contemplate, and pray. Before moving too far into the New Year, let’s take a quick trip back to the 1300’s. Here we find one of the earliest definitions of “resolution” – taken from a Latin word meaning “a process of...
Hope for Troubled Times Journal (PDF)Download "Hope for Troubled Times," a printable journal, guides you (or you and your children) through a select Psalm for 22 days. Each Psalm was chosen for the comfort, encouragement, or reminders that can truly offer us hope. Having read through these Psalms with my children and asking them what "stood out" or spoke to them, I later had wished that I...
A COVID-19 Prayer + Reading Guide This guide was created with a friend for our friends and their children for two reasons: to read an encouraging Psalm together that would give hope, comfort, or assurance during a time of uncertainty and to condense the many prayer needs around us to one daily prayer focus with our children. Download
Download PDF The disciples had many reasons to have troubled hearts. Jesus had just shared with them things they did not understand, words that caused them to be afraid, and sayings that quite possibly left them feeling alone. In this five day devotional series, "Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled," we will look at the cause, the cure, and the comfort of a troubled heart as we are reminded to trust...